Lisa fell into a deep sleep after going back to bed. When she woke up again, she discovered that Chaeyoung has been up for some time. The smell of soy milk and youtiao wafted through the room.
"Why are you up so early?" Sprawled across her bed, Lisa peered at Chaeyoung.
"I'm in a great mood!" Chaeyoung raised her arm and passed a bag of youtiao to her. "Breakfast?"
Lisa took one from the bag and immediately took a bite. Without chewing it first, she asked Chaeyoung, "What made you so happy?"
"Earlier in the morning, that girl name Kim Yerim WeChat transferred me 50 yuan. She even said that she wants to reserve future chances to deliver Jungkook's breakfast. This is way too entertaining".
Lisa was a little surprised. "Jungkook believed it? He didn't say anything?"
"Nope"
"Hmm, looks like he is not on guard. We can continue to auction opportunities to deliver him breakfast then. We won't stop till Jungkook yells us to".
....
Lisa did not have class that afternoon. Chaeyoung wanted to work during this free period and was unable to hang out with her. Bored, Lisa followed her to the Ice Rink.
She needed to make the most of her free ice skating perk. After all, this was a benefit that she "sold" herself for.
Being an ice rink crew member was physically demanding work that required one to practically spend all time one ice. For those like Park Chaeyoung who did not know how to skate, they would first be trained on how to do so. However after taking one look at how frail and fragile Chaeyoung was, the manager assigned her to look after the equipment rental instead.
Chaeyoung was puzzled and asked Lisa, "Say, why do you think I got selected when I'm obviously not the best person for this job? Wasn't there supposed to be intense competition over it?"
She and Jimin were still in the dark that they were selected due to their friendship with Lisa.
Lisa threw out her best guess. "Maybe it's because you're pretty".
Chaeyoung believed her.
The ice rink they were at was located in the east wing of the indoor ice stadium. RCU's indoor ice stadium was separated into two wings. The east wing held the main with biggest ice rink. It could seat more than 1,000 spectators and was capable of hosting competitions. On day without any special events, the ice rink was open to public with the earnings used to maintain its daily operations. It was said that in the past, the RCU Ice Stadium was consecutively in the red. However, ever since ice stadium's management was taken over by Bright club, it's financial reports had drastically improved.
RCU's partnership with Bright club did not stop here.
RCU's Ice sports teams consisted of the short track speed skating team, the figure skating team and the ice hokey team. The ice hockey team was the last to be establishment. Without solid achievements, funding was tight. To make things worse, ice hockey was a sport that required massive funds to sustain... Gradually, the ice hockey team had difficulties operating and fell into shambles.
RCU could only resort to the unorthodox method of sustaining the ice hockey team with a school-business hybrid operational model.
This partnership was in the words for over a year. Originally, both parties haggled extensively over the potential benefits and was unable to come to a consensus. The partnership almost collapsed.
It was the start of a few academic year last September that a new first year student name Jungkook reported at Rain City United University.
Then, as an ordinary student, he ran over the ice hockey team and raised a ruckus. He said that he wished to join the ice hockey team, and that he was fully capable of carrying them.
The ice hockey coach had truly not seen someone so pretentious for years. At that time, he was a little muddleheaded and actually didn't hit Jungkook.
Following this, Jungkook also did not say much. He changed into Ice hockey equipment, played against the ice hockey team members, and managed to successfully join the ice hockey team that very day.
After discovering this new player on the team, Bright Club swiftly yielded and signed a cooperation agreement with RCU.
The presence of Jungkook and Bright club resulted in rapid changed for the RCU ice hockey team. The January, at the National University Winter Games, the RCU ice hockey team managed to obtain a gold medal despite facing strong competitors. With this competition alone, Jungkook shot to fame and became the subject of numerous discussions. After appearing in further ice hockey competitions in the subsequent months, he gradually gained some fans. Male fans thought that he had great skills while female fans thought that he was hot. The club boss thought that he was a money tree while the school management thought that he was the breakthrough in reversing the fortunes of the ice hockey team....
Everyone placed him on a pedestal.
....
It was at the equipment rental counter that Lisa heard all these gossips from the young female cashier.
She was great at dramatizing, and both Lisa and Chaeyoung listened till they were dazed. Lisa was a little sceptical. "Hm, really? Are you sure he is that good?"
"Definitely. Everyone reverently calls him Golden Ice God. Do you think that this was just for show?"
Lisa's lips curled. She shook her head. "I don't think this name fits him".
"What do you think fits him then?"
"Muscle Pig or Dog"
The girl's face darkened. She heatedly said, "I'm his fan. Mind your words!"
"Sorry, Sorry miss fan". Lisa quickly apologized. "This sister over here. Let me divulge something to you about Jeon Jungkook. Are you interested to know?"
"Oh? What?"
"I'm the one who brought him into ice hockey". Lisa pointed to herself. "Really. I'm not lying. I'm his life coach".
The girl was full of admiration. "Most people would claim to be his girlfriend. You must be the first and only one to say that you're his life coach. What a refreshing and creative way of boasting. If there was a boasting competition, I'll definitely vote for you".
Lisa wasn't too motivated in continuing the conversation and strolled off.
She originally wanted to ice skate but as she passed by the door on the west, she saw that the door was open and on it hung a sign that said "No unauthorised entry".
Usually, the more something was forbidden, the bigger the itch to investigate it.
The west door wasn't an exit but led to the west wing.
Lisa knew that only the east wing of the Ice stadium was open to public. The west wing was a restricted area reserved for athletes trainings. She was a little curious on how it looked like. She looked left and right, saw that no one was looking and in a flash, sneaked inside.
Behind the door was a passageway. At the end of this passageway was curiously enough, yet another door.
She pushed open this door to see a security guard silently staring at her.
"Cough" This was awkward.
"Who are you looking for? You need to register yourself at the main entrance".
"I'm....just looking around".
"You're not allowed to do that here".
"Can't I just take a small peek...." Lisa mumbled. Seeing the security guard's unyielding attitude, she was about to turn when she suddenly saw a familiar figure in the distance. "Manager Song!" She yelled.
Hearing her voice, Manager Song looked over. He saw that it was Lisa and smiled. "Oh Lisa, are you here for Jungkook?"
"Ah? Ah" Lisa nodded.
"Go ahead. It happens that he is about to end training. You know where he is at, don't you?"
"Yeah" Lisa lied through her teeth.
As a result, Manager Song left her to her own devices.
Lisa successfully sauntered into the west wing without supervision.
....
Manager Song went to settle some things at the east wing. When he returned to the west wing, he chanced upon Jungkook who was about to head out with his bag. He saw Jungkook's quite look of confidence and beamed at him. "Going for class?"
"Hm".
He saw that Jungkook was alone and curiously asked, "Has Lisa left?"
Jungkook halted, "Lisa?"
"That's right. She came to find you. I just saw her not long ago".
Jungkook wrinkled his brows and wondered what that scoundrel was up to this time.
He was unable to guess her little mind. Feeling uneasy, he turned back to look for her.